Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 14:59:01 -0700
From: Sylvia Swift
Subject: Re: contempt vs. content
i've heard only the contempt version in my WY>RI>OR>CA life, and assumed
(before i read about the helsinki paper) that it was a joking version
along the lines of "abcess makes the heart grow fonder." out of
curiousity, i checked _bartlett's familiar quotations_, where most of the
stuff i used to think my mom made up turns out to be. there are no
content cites, four for contempt:
publius syrius, maxim 640
aesop, "the fox and the lion"
shakespeare, _the merry wives of windsor_, act i, scene i, line 258
cervantes, _don quixote_
sylvia swift
madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet.berkeley.edu